Keio Shonan-Fujisawa Junior & Senior High School
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is located on the Shonan Fujisawa Campus of Keio University
in Fujisawa
, Kanagawa Prefecture
, Japan
. Since its founding in 1992, the school has been commonly known as Keio SFC, or simply SFC.
The overwhelming majority (99%) of its students advance to Keio University
. In 2006, for example, out of 237 students who entered the senior or final year, 232 were admitted to the various campuses of Keio University.
proficiency, and the school emphasizes English education as well as information technology
in its curriculum.
The school operates on a trimester system with a five week summer vacation and a three week break at the end spanning late December and early January.
Like other university-attached private high schools in Japan, students in their final year of high school are exempt from taking entrance exams in order to enter the affiliated university.Students in their last year can specify which Keio University faculty they wish to enter and are granted admission to a specific faculty dependent on their academic grades and other intangibles. This frees up enormous amounts of time for extra-curricular activities. Most students belong to clubs of some sort (sports, music, arts, dance, etc) and will typically spend 12 to 20 hours a week on club pursuits.
The school is co-educational and the number of boys and girls is effectively equal.
Most of the teaching staff are Keio University graduates, many with Master's degrees, which is unusual among secondary educators in Japan.
Keio University
,abbreviated as Keio or Keidai , is a Japanese university located in Minato, Tokyo. It is known as the oldest institute of higher education in Japan. Founder Fukuzawa Yukichi originally established it as a school for Western studies in 1858 in Edo . It has eleven campuses in Tokyo and Kanagawa...
in Fujisawa
Fujisawa, Kanagawa
is a city located in Kanagawa, Japan. As of 2010, the city had an estimated population of 407,731 and a population density of 5,870 people per km². The total area is 69.51 km²-Geography:...
, Kanagawa Prefecture
Kanagawa Prefecture
is a prefecture located in the southern Kantō region of Japan. The capital is Yokohama. Kanagawa is part of the Greater Tokyo Area.-History:The prefecture has some archaeological sites going back to the Jōmon period...
, Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
. Since its founding in 1992, the school has been commonly known as Keio SFC, or simply SFC.
The overwhelming majority (99%) of its students advance to Keio University
Keio University
,abbreviated as Keio or Keidai , is a Japanese university located in Minato, Tokyo. It is known as the oldest institute of higher education in Japan. Founder Fukuzawa Yukichi originally established it as a school for Western studies in 1858 in Edo . It has eleven campuses in Tokyo and Kanagawa...
. In 2006, for example, out of 237 students who entered the senior or final year, 232 were admitted to the various campuses of Keio University.
School
The school is one of three schools affiliated with Keio University. The school is a combined Junior and Senior High, with grades seven through twelve. There are 160 students per grade in Junior High, with another 80 students joining in the first year of Senior High, bringing the total to 240 students per grade. Most of the teachers teach in both the Junior and Senior schools, which share the same buildings, which is uncommon in Japan.Student life
Most students live in Kanagawa Prefecture and the typical commuting time is 90 minutes. About a quarter of the students are returnees who have lived abroad in various countries. Some of these students have a high English languageEnglish language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
proficiency, and the school emphasizes English education as well as information technology
Information technology
Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...
in its curriculum.
The school operates on a trimester system with a five week summer vacation and a three week break at the end spanning late December and early January.
Like other university-attached private high schools in Japan, students in their final year of high school are exempt from taking entrance exams in order to enter the affiliated university.Students in their last year can specify which Keio University faculty they wish to enter and are granted admission to a specific faculty dependent on their academic grades and other intangibles. This frees up enormous amounts of time for extra-curricular activities. Most students belong to clubs of some sort (sports, music, arts, dance, etc) and will typically spend 12 to 20 hours a week on club pursuits.
The school is co-educational and the number of boys and girls is effectively equal.
Most of the teaching staff are Keio University graduates, many with Master's degrees, which is unusual among secondary educators in Japan.